Water Events in 2007

The Water Research Cluster hosted two key events to coincide with National Water Week 2007. 

Water Wednesday: The Future of Water in South Australia

To celebrate National Water Week, the Water Research Cluster hosted Water Wednesday on 24 October. This special forum focused on the future for water in South Australia. Guest presenters included the Minister for the River Murray and Water Security, Hon Karlene Maywald, Mr Chris Stathy of Philmac Pty Ltd with an industry perspective, Assoc Prof David Paton drawing lessons from the death of the Coorong, and Dr Rod Oliver looking at the future health of the Murray-Darling Basin. The forum concluded with an open discussion.

Presentations (pdf version of Powerpoint)

• Karlene Maywald (pdf 566kB)
• Rod Oliver (pdf 586kB)
• David Paton (pdf 2MB)

The podcasts are also available through the LitFuse RSS feed.

Water Pitchfest

On 25th October 2007, the Water Research Cluster and the Water Industry Alliance hosted a Pitchfest on New Technologies for Water Management. The event has been podcast. An extensive blog has been written on the event which includes information on all of the speakers and their talks, including individual podcasts and video footage of each talk.

• Video footage of the presentations listed below is available:
  • Edited highlights of Water Pitchfest 2007
  • Joe Flynn (Water Industry Alliance): Welcome and introduction
  • Chris Colby (University of Adelaide): Energy, Costs & Carbon: desalination
  • Lionel Ho (Australian Water Quality Centre): Biofiltration
  • Don Perugini (Intelligent Software Development): Artificial Intelligence
  • David Lewis (University of Adelaide): Water Treatment
  • Peter Moller (Agrilink): New sensors in irrigation systems
  • Tim Anderson (Optimatics): The Power of Optimisation
  • Paul Dalby (In Fusion): Litfuse and new media demonstration
• Pitchfest blog
• Pitchfest podcast